A.dancing, the dance, Epich. 171 ; “ἐς ὄρχησιν ἀνίστασθαι” Hdt.1.202 ; esp. pantomimic dancing, Id.6.129 ; “δεινὰ ἐποιοῦντο πάσας τὰς ὀ. ἐν ὅπλοις εἶναι” X.An.6.1.11 ; “ἐκπονεῖν” Plb.4.20.12 : a part of ἡ γυμναστική, acc. to Pl.Lg.795e ; “ἡ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις ὄ.” Id.Cra.406d ; ὄ. ἐνόπλιος, ἐναγώνιος ὄ., Luc.Salt.8,32, POxy. 1241 v 27 (ii A. D.), etc.; περὶ Ὀρχήσεως, title of work by Lucian ; cf. Ath.1.14dsq., 14.630bsqq., Poll.4.95 sq.
ὄρχ-ησις , εως, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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